The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-04-30
News of the Week.

Canon Wilberforce arrived in New York on
Saturday by the steamer Saale.
1t is estimated that $3.50, 900 will be paid in
salaries to baseball players the present sea-
son.
Four hundred children and many adults in
Madison, Wisconsin, are sick with the measles.
The public schools have been closed.
It is expected that the public debt state
ment for this month will show a reduction of
between twelve and fifteen millions of dollars
All the sBald Knobbersn now in Jail at
Ozark, Missouri, eleven in number, have
been indicted for the murder of George Edens.
A disastrous fire has occurred at Arnoat-
kcui, Asia Minor. Five hundred houses
were burned and many persons lost their
lives.
Two women, named Mrs. Annie Kelly and
Mrs Ellen Burnett, have been arrested IN
New York, charged with counterfeiting silver
coins.
The report that the cholera has appeared at
Mazatlan and Guaymas, in Mexico, is denied
by the Governor of Sonora, who says he will
trace and prosecute the author of the report.
Wednesday being the anniversary of the
birthday of General Grant, it was celebrated
by banquets and addresses in Pittsburg, New
York, Washington, Des MONIES, Hartford
and other cities.
The total number of immigrants who arrived
in the UnitedaStates during the nine months
which ended March 3lst last was 261, OS9,
against 179,S61 during the corresponding
period of last year.
The teasers and mixers in all the glass fac
tories of the Pittsburg district struck on We'd
nesday for an increase in wages, averaging
10 per cent. Fourteen factories have closed,
and nearly 1000 men are idle.
A freight train on the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad was wrecked near Timberville Sta
ton, Virginia, Wednesday afternoon. Will
liam Cooley, brakeman. was killed and Ed
ward Russell, conductor, badly injured.
The Chief of Police of Nogales, Arizona,
has received a telegram saying that the chol-
era is raging in the Mexican town of Mazatlan,
and has broken out at Guaymas. People are
leaving the infected districts in large numbers.
The Illinois Live Stock Commission is in
Chicago discussing the pleuro- pneumonia
question. 1t is thought that one thousand
more cattle will have to be slaughtered in
Cook county before the disease can be eradi-
Gated.
A despatch from the City of Mexico says
that Lieutenant Colonel Sunoz, of the Eighth
Battalion, and NJ. NJ. Zavalla, Musical Di-
rector attached to the command, fought a
duel At the word both fired at once, and
both fell dead.
1t is stated on authority that the evidence
submitted at the recent evils service investi-
CATION at Chicago failed to substantiate the
charges preferred by the Chicago Civil Ser
vice Reform Association against Collector
Seeberger, of the Chicago custom house.
A telegram from the City of Mexico reports
that the guests who on Monday gathered to
celebrate the marriage of Benito Hernandez
and Juanita Alvidez, near Merida, in Yucatan,
became involved in general fight. Several
of them, including the groom, were killed.
tits reported from the valley of St. Maurice,
Quebec, that the disease known as black fe-
yer, accompanied by diphtheria, is making ter
rible ravages among the people. At Mount
Caribo the family of French settler named
Antoine Veaugeois have been almost destroy
ed, eight deaths having taken place.
The total exports from the United States
during the II months which ended March 31si
amounted in value to Sal, AS 78, against
1865, 1854, 1872 during the preceding II months.
The imports for the year ending March 3lst
were in value 1913, 097 ,213, against S614, 1885,
16S during the II months which ended March
3lst, 1886. !
The wife of Marcus, ranchman of Tamau
lipas, Mexico, recently ran away with a
neighbours son. Her husband pursued them
and found them in hotel. Going to their
room at night he tapped at the door. The
youth opened it and was shot dead. Marcus
then shot and MORALLY wounded his wife, and
committed suicide by stabbing himself to the
heart.
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Tunnel Colliery of the Reading Coal and Iron
Company at Ashland, Penna., by which FIVE
men were killed. A ''run" of 'pillarsr in
one of the gangways occurred, letting down a
quantity of coal and volume of deadly gas.
The disaster happened about one o'clock,
bat was not discovered until two hours later,
when the victims were found dead.
In Paulding county, Ohio, on Monday
night, two hundred masked men overpowered
the guards at thereservoir, blew up the banks,
and, saturating the locks and timber with oil,
burned them. Tvesday afternoon the Gov
ernor ordered the Toledo company of Nation
al Guards to the scene. The citizens claim
that the reservoir is of no value; that it covers
several thousand acres that could5e converted
into fine farming lands, and the pond creates
sickness.
The Bolton Dyeing, Printing and Bleach
ing Company's works in Bronxdale, West
chester county, New York, were destroyed
by fire early on Wednesday morning. After
the fire broke out succession of terrific ex-
plosions occurred, shaking the dwellings for
three miles around as if by an earthquake.
The loss is estimated at $4,000. The ex-
blossoms were caused by the sudden genera
ton of steam in the tin cylinder dyeing cans,
ON which wet cloths were rolled to dry.
Willis Brothers grocery, in Allegheny City,
Penna., was burned early Tuesday morning.
The upper part of the building was occupied
by the Willis family and by some dodgers.
Two men, named Eberman and Hoggitzrun,
were fatally injured byjumping from windows,
and after the fire was extinguished the dead
bodies Of Sophie Boles and Frederick Shultz
were found on the fourth floor. The loss on
property is about $40, 900. 1t is supposed the
fire was started by an explosion of natural
gas.
A rotary rag boiler in the Ivanhoe Paper
Mill, at Paterson, New Jersey, exploded on
Saturday afternoon. 1t wrecked large por-
ton of the mill, went through the roof and
fell upon Booth & Co.'s silk mill opposite,
also badly damaging that building. Michael
Burke is missing and supposed to have been
killed in the Ivanhoe Mill. James Simpson
was fatally injured, and five others sustained
severe injuries. In 5oOln mill maggie van
Site and Rachel Levi had their skulls fractur-
ed, and two others were badly injured.
In Cincinnati on Tuesday morning Henry
Heile, who had been mildly insane for nearly
a year, felled his wife to the floor with a
Ratchet. He then went to the bed where
their two children were lying and aimed o
blow at them. The wife, who had recovered
consciousness, threw herself between the
maniac and the children and received the
blow upon her head, but the force Of the blow
was broken by thick roll of hair. She then
threw open the window and screamed for help
and her husband fed to the kitchen, where he
cut his throat with a knife.
Near Mansfield, Illinois, on Tuesday alter
noon. while four men repairing q harm were
standing ON bracket scaffold, twenty feet
from the ground, calf running at large,
with rope around its neck, managed to
wrap the rope several times around one of
the posts used to support the scatfolding at an
angle of fifty degrees. One of the workmen
was about to descend the ladder and liberate
the calf, when the animal made sudden
spring, and jerking the support from under